Mike Tidmus

The Four Horsemen: Hour 1 of 2 (Video: richarddawkinsdotnet at YouTube) In this two-part series, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens — all of whom have written books critical of religion — discuss the consequences of and reactions to their ideas. The Four Horsemen: Hour 2 of 2 (Video: richarddawkinsdotnet at YouTube) Background: On [...]

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” — Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, authorand non-believer, from The God Delusion

‘I Am Offended!’ – Richard Dawkins lecturing at UC Berkeley (video: FFreeThinker at YouTube) FFreeThinker says of Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain’s leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine [...]

Back on 11 May 2010, I noted the disappearance of a rather large Christian cross from a war memorial in the Mojave Desert. The placement of the cross on public property had been challenged in court, but Justice Anthony Kennedy and the US Supreme Court, in Salazar v Buono, ruled that one religious symbol does, [...]

RDF TV – Baloney Detection Kit – Michael Shermer (video: The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science at YouTube) In this video from The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine lays out his highly informative and entirely useful Baloney Detection Kit — the top ten questions we all [...]

Richard Dawkins: An atheist’s call to arms (video: TEDtalksDirector at YouTube) TED: The session was titled “The Design of Life,” and the TED audience was probably expecting remarks about evolution’s role in our history from biologist Richard Dawkins. Instead, he launched into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively [...]

Richard Dawkins – “What if you’re wrong?” South Park-style (video: TubeLooB at YouTube) M’kay. By Jove, he’s right. (tip: Atheist Media Blog)

New Scientist magazine has an article by Lois Lee and Stephen Bullivant, Where do atheists come from?, that’s worth a look. HERE’s a fact to flatter the unbelievers among you: the bright young things at the University of Oxford are among the most godless groups ever studied in the UK. Of 728 students surveyed in [...]

Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position — and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk (video: TED: Ideas Worth Spreading) Here’s why you should make time to listen to Richard Dawkins.

(graphic: The Richard Dawkins Foundation) Feel the need and have the wherewithal to donate to the relief effort in Haiti, but don’t want to be paying for boxes of Bibles or having a percentage of your donation end up lining the pockets of some douchebag televangelist? From The Richard Dawkins Foundation, here’s how you can [...]

The Vatican Rag, written and performed by noted blasphemer Tom Leher (video: 6funswede at YouTube) An anti-blasphemy law went into effect today in the Republic of Ireland. Criticize religion and you could end up on the wrong end of a €25,000 ($35.8K USD) fine. Also today, Atheist Ireland, in response, posted 25 “blasphemous” quotations on [...]

“It is not particularly remarkable that a mountebank like Oral Roberts should succeed in conning his followers out of their money. As P T Barnum observed, there’s a sucker born every minute. If people are that stupid and choose to hand over their money to an obvious fake, that is their privilege. What should concern [...]

Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial (montage: The Guardian) As a conference on climate change convenes in Copenhagen today, 56 newspapers from 47 countries in 20 languages are simultaneously publishing the same editorial. The eminent biologist, author, lecturer and non-believer, Professor Richard [...]

Richard Dawkins Foundation – 2009 Fundraiser (video: richarddawkinsdotnet at YouTube) Over at RichardDawkins.net, there’s a fundraiser in progress. The goal is to raise $100,000 by the beginning of 2010. As biologist, and associate professor (at the University of Minnesota, Morris) and blogger PZ Myers puts it: What better way to treat this traditionally religious season [...]

A lesson for all Christians about Christmas from Richard Dawkins (video: ogjimkenobi at YouTube) (tip: RichardDawkins.net)